Monday, June 20, 2016

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed it and on a recent re-watch I worked out why. It's all about female friendship and solidarity. Elle is a rich sorority chick who appears shallow and mostly interested in getting married to her love, Warner. Usually in films rich, blonde, popular, shallow, marriage chasing women are bitches. Not so Elle. She is friends with everyone in her sorority house (is that the right term?) and she expects other women to be friends too.

When she starts at Harvard and a lecturer asks Vivian for her opinion on Elle's behaviour, Elle is genuinely shocked that Viv goes against her. When Elle needs a pick me up and goes to a nail salon she takes genuine interest in the beautician's life and becomes friends with her - in films rich women don't usually make friends with poor women, but this friendship is genuine.

All the successes of the film are down to women trusting each other and supporting each other. The woman the legal team is defending used to be in Elle's sorority and so she only trusts Elle. They wouldn't have won the case without Elle. Viv eventually dumps Warren, stops being a bitch to elle and they become friends.

It's nice to see a film that celebrates female solidarity, girliness (pink, fashion, bubbliness) and seriousness and achievement. It's great. If I ever get the inclination I will watch it again and do a full analysis of it. That would be fun.

On a more comics note, I saw my first episode of Teen Titans Go! this morning - it was the one where Raven and rose make friends and Starfire, Cybor and Garth go to Cool School. It was witty and the characters were in character. I very much enjoyed it. Almost as much as I've been enjoying the Rebirth books I've been reading. It's been a good couple of weeks for my entertainment. :)